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TOEFL iBT Reading Overview

Section Content Time Score

Reading 3─5 700-word

passages

11─13

questions with

a total score of

14

20 minutes per

passage

60─100 total

minutes

/30

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2. Reading Passages

• Reading passages are from first-year college and

university textbooks.

academic content

information dense

• 12th grade reading level

• Readings contain low-frequency vocabulary.

• 36 –73 very difficult words per reading

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3. Reading Screen

3. Reading Screen

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4. Answers in Reading Passages

• The order of the questions follows the order of the

information in the passage.

• The answer for question one is before the answer for

question two.

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5. Reading Toolbar Buttons

• NEXT

see the next question

• BACK

see the previous question

• REVIEW

see a list of answered and unanswered questions

• VIEW TEXT

view the entire passage

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6. Review Screen

• Click on REVIEW button in the Reading section to see

the review screen.

• Review screen has a list of answered and unanswered

questions

GO TO QUESTION: see the question

highlighted in the list

RETURN: go back to before you

clicked REVIEW button

GO TOQUESTION

RETURN

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8. Multiple Choice Questions

• Paraphrase Questions

recognize simplified and rephrased sentences with same

meaning as sentences from the passage

• Factual Information Questions

identify true information

• Inference Questions

draw a conclusion from stated facts

• Negative Factual Information Questions

identify a fact that is not true or not mentioned in passage

• Purpose Questions

identify why author included a highlighted word or phrase

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9. Insert Text Questions

• Click on one of four squares to indicate best placement

for new sentence.

worth one point

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• Drag and drop answers to one of three summary

positions.

You don’t have to put answers in order. 

worth two points• ____________________ 

• ____________________ 

• ____________________ 

10. Prose Summary Questions

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11. Schematic Framework Questions

• Drag and drop answer choices into the correct

category.

more answers than slots—some answers do not fit under

either category

worth three or four points

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12. Common Distractors

• Distractors are incorrect answers.

• Several types of distractors:

repeat words from the reading but incorrectly answer the

question

are not mentioned in the reading

contradict information in the reading passage

do not answer the question

are incomplete

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13. Helpful Tips

• Correct answers

are usually restatements from the reading passage.

• If you don’t know the answer,

use process of elimination.

select the most logical answer.

• If time is running out,

answer the easy questions first.

guess for remaining questions.

• You don’t lose points for guessing.

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14. More Helpful Tips

• If you finish early,

continue checking your answers.

• Your first choice is usually correct.

•

Answer all the questions in one passage before youmove on to the next.

focus will change when you read the second passage.